coercion
noun
the act of coercing; use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.
Example Sentences
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It has a truthful framework about the troubled-teen industry, but it’s also a cult genre thriller, and cults are such a great analogy for the coerciveness of society.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 25, 2025
Bulatov is fascinated by the ^ seepage of official art language, in all its enthusiasm and coerciveness, through daily life.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no coerciveness about it, and each can invent his own hypothesis.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill
For sheer arbitrary coerciveness, nothing in the armory of the union is so effective as the boycott.
From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Samuel Peter Orth
It is the correlative of that diminished coerciveness so conspicuous in modern education.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
